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| Xin WangSummaryAffiliation: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Country: USA Publications
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Detection of bacterial pathogens in Mongolia meningitis surveillance with a new real-time PCR assay to detect Haemophilus influenzaeXin Wang
Meningitis and Vaccine Preventable Diseases Branch, Division of Bacterial Diseases, National Center of Immunization and Respiratory Diseases, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA 30333, USA
Int J Med Microbiol 301:303-9. 2011..A sensitive rt-PCR assay to detect both typeable and non-typeable Hi is a useful tool for improving Hi disease surveillance especially after Hib vaccine introduction...
Clinical validation of multiplex real-time PCR assays for detection of bacterial meningitis pathogensXin Wang
Division of Bacterial Diseases, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
J Clin Microbiol 50:702-8. 2012..There were no substantial differences in sensitivity and specificity between these multiplex and singleplex real-time PCR assays...
Evaluation of new biomarker genes for differentiating Haemophilus influenzae from Haemophilus haemolyticusM Jordan Theodore
Meningitis and Vaccine Preventable Diseases Branch, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention CDC, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
J Clin Microbiol 50:1422-4. 2012..haemolyticus. Phylogenetic analysis using the 16S rRNA gene demonstrated two distinct groups for H. influenzae and H. haemolyticus...
Using single-nucleotide polymorphisms to discriminate disease-associated from carried genomes of Neisseria meningitidisLee S Katz
School of Biology, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA 30332, USA
J Bacteriol 193:3633-41. 2011..A number of overrepresented functional categories related to virulence were uncovered among SNP-associated genes, including genes related to the category "symbiosis, encompassing mutualism through parasitism."..
sodC-based real-time PCR for detection of Neisseria meningitidisJennifer Dolan Thomas
Meningitis and Vaccine Preventable Diseases Branch, Division of Bacterial Diseases, National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America
PLoS ONE 6:e19361. 2011..This sodC rt-PCR assay is a highly sensitive and specific method for detection of Nm, especially in carriage studies where many meningococcal isolates lack capsule genes...
Prevalence and genetic diversity of candidate vaccine antigens among invasive Neisseria meningitidis isolates in the United StatesXin Wang
Meningitis and Vaccine Preventable Disease Branch, Division of Bacterial Diseases, National Center of Immunization and Respiratory Diseases, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA 30333, United States
Vaccine 29:4739-44. 2011....
Haemophilus haemolyticus isolates causing clinical diseaseRaydel Anderson
Meningitis and Vaccine Preventable Disease Branch, Division of Bacterial Diseases, National Center for Infectious and Respiratory Diseases, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
J Clin Microbiol 50:2462-5. 2012..All cases had different symptoms and presentations. Our study suggests that a testing scheme that includes reliable PCR assays and standard microbiological methods should be used in order to improve H. haemolyticus identification...
Emergence of ciprofloxacin-resistant Neisseria meningitidis in North AmericaHenry M Wu
Office of Workforce and Career Development, and the Division of Bacterial Diseases, National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA 30333, USA
N Engl J Med 360:886-92. 2009..Ciprofloxacin-resistant N. meningitidis has emerged in North America...
Meningococcus genome informatics platform: a system for analyzing multilocus sequence typing dataLee S Katz
School of Biology, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA 30332, USA
Nucleic Acids Res 37:W606-11. 2009....
